Chapter Seventy-Nine: Blood and Water --- Turn Grief into Food
After running out for a distance, Zhang Haorong's footsteps became heavier and heavier, in fact, the frolicking with his mother just now cannot be said to be completely directed by himself, but there is also a little bit of camouflage in it......
The reason why he has this sudden change in mood is entirely because the phone call from his grandfather just stimulated his mood, in the past, his mother would take him to his grandfather's house to get together with his sisters and brothers, but now it is different from the past, and the divorce of his parents has also changed all this, in fact, Zhang Haolong's heart has slowly accepted this reality, but he just heard a little sadness from his grandfather's words.
Although when his grandfather just called Zhang Haorong, he tried his best to hide the dullness in his heart, but how could Zhang Haorong, who was brought up by his grandfather and grandmother since he was a child, not be able to distinguish what his grandfather's mood was when he spoke?
Maybe it's the reason for the affection, Zhang Haorong at this moment involuntarily recalled the scene that happened on the second day of the first lunar month in 2001, and the reason why he remembered the scene of that day was because in his memory, the Spring Festival was the most memorable Spring Festival in his memory, and he still remembers it vividly.
He clearly remembered that on the second day of the first lunar month of that year, he and his parents got up early in the morning and rushed to his grandfather's house, and when they arrived at his grandfather's house, his grandparents had already begun to prepare different lunches and dinners, and the reason why he started to prepare lunch and dinner so early that year was because his grandmother happened to be discharged from the hospital that year, so his grandmother's brothers and younger brothers would also go to his grandmother's house to spend the Spring Festival together, so it was natural to prepare more meals. When the parents and grandparents were busy, the uncles and aunts also arrived one after another, and the so-called everyone gathered firewood and flames, and a few people performed their duties to complete the original heavy and complicated preparations......
After making these preparations, the elders accompanied their grandfather and grandmother to sit in the living room and start a family routine, while Zhang Haorong and his sisters and brothers "blackmailed" together Maybe because of the personality differences between boys and girls, Zhang Haorong and his younger brother will take out the fireworks and firecrackers that grandpa prepared for them before and set them off at the door of his grandfather's house, probably attracted by the sound of fireworks and firecrackers, so after a while, grandpa will also participate in it, and at noon, the family happily sat at a large round table for lunch, and even drank Coke will feel dizzy grandpa drank a few glasses of wine that day。
After lunch, because my grandfather was not strong enough to drink, I went back to the bedroom with my grandmother to rest, and my father and uncles took this opportunity to find a corner to play with the gold flowers, about 4 o'clock in the afternoon when my grandmother's brothers and sisters arrived one after another, at this moment the originally small living room has been very crowded, because most of the people in the family can smoke, so the whole room seems to be smoky like a fairyland, in normal times this will definitely attract the mother and aunts to complain, but that day they were unexpectedly quiet, even the grandfather who is often counted down because of this is quite surprisedAfter dinner, everyone took a family photo together, what Zhang Haorong didn't expect was that this family photo turned out to be the last souvenir of them and their grandmother......
While Zhang Haorong was standing in place, his mother gently patted him on the shoulder and asked excitedly: What do you want?
Seeing that her mother was so happy, Zhang Haorong was embarrassed to ruin her mother's interest because of herself, so she replied in a disorderly manner: What can I think? Isn't it because I didn't eat in the morning that I was fantasizing about to experience a vegan fast?
After hearing Zhang Haorong's words, his mother said with a look of contempt: I remember that you are meatless and unhappy, look at your current body shape, isn't it just a little vegetarian dish, as for making you greedy like this! Let's go, let's go now.
In this way, the mother and son took the battery car again to the foot of Guanyin on the sea, and at this moment Zhang Haorong realized that the venue for the "Eid al-Fitr Vegan Zhai Experience Activity" was actually in the square of the Nanhai Guanyin scene that he had just passed by, and now he couldn't help but have a feeling of revisiting the old place.
When they arrived at the square, it could be said that it was already full of guests, Zhang Haorong and his mother received the admission tickets from the tour guide's sister, and casually found a place to settle down, which surprised Zhang Haolong. In addition to the many tables and chairs in the square, the tourists who were waiting for the meal could not see the shadow of the dishes for a long time, which made Zhang Haodong wonder!
Just when Zhang Haorong was puzzled, an old man wearing a robe suddenly appeared in the center of the square, the old man said some precautions, immediately announced the official start of Eid al-Fitr, as the old man's voice fell, only to see a lot of monks wearing monk's robes in the distance of the square, with a scar on the head of the little monk, slowly walking towards the people in the field, and the difference from the past is that each of them has a cart full of dishes in their hands.
When these monks got closer, Zhang Haorong couldn't help but be shocked, he involuntarily grabbed his mother's sleeve, and whispered in his mother's ear: Mom, look at us, we have been fooled! There is not only meat on the table, but also fish. With Zhang Haorong's reminder, his mother also looked down, and after some observation, his mother determined that what Zhang Haorong said was true, so she replied in a low voice: What is love! If it is meat and vegetables, we will make a lot of money, anyway, no matter what it is, we will not suffer.
At this time, Zhang Haorong felt that what his mother said was indeed reasonable, so when a group of monks pushed the dining cart to the mother and son, Zhang Haorong completely put the "attack" target on the fish and meat, but when he put the fish and meat in his mouth and tasted a few bites, he found that these fish and meat were all made of tofu, but what made him feel strange was that these "fish" and "meat" In terms of taste, there is almost no difference from real fish and meat, but the taste is a little like dried tofu, but at this moment, the mother suddenly said happily: "Child, this time you really didn't come in vain, do you know what you are eating now?" After hearing his mother's words, Zhang Haorong couldn't help but look at his mother, and at the same time showed a puzzled face, after his mother saw Zhang Haorong's expression, she said confidently: I used to eat this kind of thing a lot, but it was a long time ago, my mother's words made Zhang Haorong even more confused, maybe I saw Zhang Haorong's puzzlement, so my mother immediately explained: This kind of thing is a kind of soy product, commonly known as artificial meat, when we were young, due to the lack of material at that time, it took a long time to eat real meat, so your grandfather often went to the co-marketing agency to buy someAfter hearing his mother's explanation, Zhang Haorong put down the dishes and chopsticks in his hand and asked curiously: What are the things on sale? What are the food stamps? In the face of a series of questions raised by Zhang Haorong, his mother said impatiently: Can you first put away your troubles that have been digging into the roots? Let me have a good taste of the taste of my childhood.